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My struggle from a UNIX background in the modern "cloud" world (www.srcbeat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (24 children)

You can’t run vmalert without flags

Running grep without parameters is also pretty fucking useless.

500 words in to the over 3,000 word dump, I gave up.

Claims to have a Unix background, doesn't RTFM.

Nobody really uses Kubernetes for day-to-day work, and it shows. Where UNIX concepts like files and pipes exist from OS internals up to interaction by actual people, cloud-native tooling feels like it’s meant for bureaucrats in well-paid jobs.

Translation: Author does not understand APIs.

Want an asynchronous, hierarchical, recursive, key-value database? With metadata like modified times and access control built-in? Sounds pretty fancy! Files and directories.

Ok. Now give me high availability, atomic writes to sets of keys, caching, access control...

I’m ashamed enough that I can’t really apply to these jobs

This reads as "I applied to the jobs and got rejected. There's nothing wrong with me, so the jobs must be broken".

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nobody really uses Kubernetes for day-to-day work, and it shows.

Wat.

[–] purelynonfunctional 1 points 1 year ago

It seems pretty clear to me what this means. Unlike, say, a GNU/Linux command line environment, Kubernetes is not a lived-in environment. Certain kinds of environments (at least in the free software world) naturally accrue small conveniences just because they are used for basic things like navigating the filesystem, communicating with others, writing the text that one spends 40+% of their day on, etc.

Kubernetes just isn't such an environment. For most people nowadays (although this was once the case), neither is a mainframe.

Without the natural pressures of habitation, a computing environments can retain certain kinds of sharp edges much longer.

That said, we may not agree with the author's idea of the coziness of Unix. But what he's getting at there, the claim itself, is perfectly clear.

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